osama bin laden famously said that people follow the strong horse, not the week course. we are a strong country. i do worry that we look like a relatively weak horse going in the wrong direction. that makes things very dangerous. [applause] all of us have different things we would like done. for the most part under bush and cheney, everyone was operating in the same direction. under president obama, it is schizophrenic. i thought it was disgraceful and he had the investigations of the aa interrogators -- for number of years, every cia interrogator had to buy personal liability insurance to protect themselves against investigations. that is the mindset you are putting people in. with all the hypocrisy we have, during these attacks in the middle east, if some cia guy got a hold of some islamist and held his hide underwater to find out where the attack was coming from, they would say it was great three years -- the next day. three years from now, he would be indicted for war crimes. we have to keep in mind we are always at war with islamic terrorism. what we do overseas, th